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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has approved in principle changes to the EU’s seatbelt laws, that will insist every Member State passes laws obliging motorists and passengers to wear belts and children aged under 12 to wear special seat restraints.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
DaimlerChrysler Canada has announced it will close its trim plant in Ajax, Ontario, in December, 2003, as part of the company’s cost saving strategy. The closure will eliminate 650 jobs, adding to the thousands of jobs wiped out over the past 18 months at its light vehicle and heavy truck manufacturing plants.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
NEW rules for slot allocation at EU airports may be on the way following a vote by the European Parliament to approve a European Commission proposal to open up the system of landing and take-off rights to new air carriers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRESSURE is being applied to the European Union’s national governments to support both an increase in biofuel combustion and biomass energy production. A European Parliament’s industry committee report has called for EU Member States to ensure bio-combustibles, such as sunflower and colza fuels, supply two per cent of the fuel market by 2006 and 5.75 per cent by 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL guidance has been issued by the European Commission to mining groups on the application of European competition law to their sector, after the expiry of the European Coal and Steel Community on July 23. In particular, Brussels has said that it will not initiate anti-trust proceedings against coal companies taking part in cooperation agreements that had been formerly approved under the ECSC regime, and which might be suspect under general EU competition regulations that will take their place.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CIGARETTES have changed a great deal in recent years though not all smokers may realise by just how much. Once it was commonplace to roll your own, using local tobaccos. Today the market is dominated by filters and international brands, many of them ranking among the world’s best-known consumer products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TALKS held between the USA and India over a complaint regarding American rules of origin legislation for clothing and textile products have failed, with New Delhi formally requesting that a World Trade Organisation disputes panel be established to settle the row; the Indian government claims that they unfairly favour the US and European Union textile industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights has ruled that the British government is breaking the European Convention on Human Rights by blocking men from receiving both a Widow’s Payment and a Widowed Mother’s Allowance.

Its ruling followed a case brought by Kevin Willis, of Bristol, who was awarded Pounds 25,000 in damages and Pounds 12,500 costs and expenses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Free Trade Area has told the European Union that it is “deeply disturbed” by not being “exempted from the European Commission’s measures to restrict steel imports.” The Chairman of EFTA’s Standing Committee, Ambassador Gunnar Snorri Gunnarsson (CORRECT NAME) claimed at an EU-EFTA meeting that the EU had erred by failing to exempt EFTA states, (Iceland, Switzerland, Norway and Liechtenstein), from its safeguard regime, designed to stop EU markets from being flooded with steel normally sold in the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PERU has won a disputes proceedings case at the World Trade Organisation against the European Union, which has been found unfairly blocking the sale of a Peruvian sardine – sardinops sagax sagax – as sardines, despite Codex Alimentarius standards allow allowing them to be marketed in this way.…